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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Atrocity \A*troc"i*ty\, n.; pl {Atrocities}. [F. atrocit['e],
L. atrocitas fr atrox atrocis cruel.]
1. Enormous wickedness; extreme heinousness or cruelty.
2. An atrocious or extremely cruel deed.
The atrocities which attend a victory. --Macaulay.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
atrocity
n 1: the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane [syn: {atrociousness},
{barbarity}, {barbarousness}, {heinousness}]
2: a act of atrocious cruelty [syn: {inhumanity}]
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